The adage that “politics makes strange bed fellows” was never more true than in the 2015 Bridgeport Democratic mayoral primary. Joe Ganim, the disgraced former Bridgeport mayor who’s seeking another term from city taxpayers, has attracted a variety of supporters, from rank-and-file Bridgeport cops to Town Committee Chairman Mario Testa and even Ken Flatto, former Fairfield first selectman, in his quest for redemption from city voters.

Ganim served seven years in federal prison for corruption that turned Bridgeport into a pay-to-play bastion. So a little campaign theft might not be that big a deal in 2015, when Ganim’s campaign staff appropriated the audio of a three-year-old GOP TV campaign for their recent “He Failed Us” ad against Mayor Bill Finch.

But Larry Cafero, the former longtime House minority leader who’s back in private law practice in Norwalk, was thoroughly surprised when Ganim’s first attack video against Finch included audio from Cafero’s loud, emotional criticism of Democrats made on the House floor back in 2012.

“The irony is I used those words against the Democratic majority and this guy is using it in 2015 to run against another Democrat,” Cafero said Wednesday morning. Here is the original Republican ad targeting Democrats from 2012, for you audiophiles.